Every once in awhile, I'll be doing something and suddenly it'll hit me that Alexa isn't a baby anymore. I mean, it's something I know, she's 2 and all, but I still think of her as my little baby. Looking at these latest pictures, though, it's so clear what a big girl she is now. 
Just look at how big she is!
I love the cheesy smile!
For my birthday, Mike made me steak, fettuccine alfredo, and Caesar salad, aaand a S'mores Cheesecake. Everything was SO good. When we were putting everything on the table, Alexa decided that she didn't want to wait for me to cut her a piece of steak, so she just took mine! But seriously, this dinner/dessert was so delicious! It was a pregnant lady's dream. If you want the cheesecake recipe, it's on my Pinterest board, now that I'm finally on it. 
I think I've hit the nesting stage a little early this pregnancy, so I've been thinking about decor for Alexa's room and the new baby's room. For Alexa, I made these 3 boards- 2 for pictures and one for hair clips so that they'll finally be all together! The princess sign was mine as a teen, and last time I went to VA I brought it home for Alexa.
When we woke up this morning, it was relatively white, so we bundled up and went out so Alexa could play in the snow, really for the first time. She hasn't seen much snow, so she wasn't really sure what to do, but did do the classic toddler thing and immediately tasted it. Her newest, and most favorite phrase is "Mmm, I like this," which she promptly said as soon as she ate the snow. 
We made a mini snowman, which she loved. She was very sad when we couldn't bring it inside.
To bribe her back inside, I had to offer a bath with all her new bath toys from Aunt Rachel, and blue eggs for lunch. She loves scrambled eggs, and I figured if she liked the green ones so much, I may as well let her pick what color she wanted this time! They were really much more blue than they look in the picture.
Whew, now I finally feel caught up! I gotta get better at this!
Here's the required dead tree picture for Grandma Bevans.
We basically had to force her to leave; she would have stood there watching it for hours! The only way we really got her to leave was to bribe her with the train that was going past and best seen from the parking lot. I think her love of trains may be the only thing that would have pulled her away!
and hats...
painting with yogurt...
being an animal ambassador...
except when she accidentally decapitates one!
On her down time she likes reading in the tub...
playing videos games with her friends...
and trying to ship herself to Grandma and Grandpa!
We had Alexa paint her pumpkin after her nap on Sunday, figuring that she was a little young to carve her own :) She had a grand time.
And got so into it that one paint brush just wasn't enough.
And once the paint was about 3 inches thick all the way around the pumpkin, I took it away and let her paint on the 'drop cloths'. 
This is a picture of the paint right after she started, it was a brand new set when we started, and there was no paint left by the time I made her stop. 
My 4 pumpkins:
